Emmanuel Beyou

BEYOU_EmmanuelFull Professor
CHEM, REACTeurs pilotes de polycondensation
Membership: Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1
Location: UCBL

Macromolecular engineering / Functionalisation of inorganic fillers / Radical polymerisation / Hybrid materials / Nanocomposites

Research themes/centers of interest

I am involved in two main research fields : the synthesis of polymers with controlled architectures in solution and in molten media, and macromolecular engineering applied to the functionalisation of inorganic surfaces. In the field of polymer synthesis, I’m particularly interested in the self-assembly of reactive block copolymers with controlled architectures to obtain, for example, organic-inorganic hybrid materials, but also in the chemical modification of polymers in a molten medium via radical reactions. Moreover, I am interested in the functionalization of inorganic surfaces which mainly associated with controlling the properties of thin films based on polymer brushes formed on silicon wafers and glass wafers using a combination of reactive Langmuir-Blodgett deposition, grafting from and controlled radical polymerization. Similarly, I am interested in the development of nanocomposites containing functional fillers with various form factors to address the problem of homogeneous dispersion of these fillers in polymers using grafting from, onto and through techniques.

Major publications

  • Nitroxide-Mediated Polymerizations from Silica Nanoparticle Surfaces: “Graft from”
    Polymerization of Styrene Using a Triethoxysilyl-Terminated Alkoxyamine initiator, C.
    Bartholome, E. Beyou, E. Bourgeat-Lami, P. Chaumont, and N. Zydowicz, Macromolecules, 36, 7946, (2003) ; DOI : 10.1021/ma034491u
  • Bimetallic PdAg nanoparticle arrays from monolayer films of diblock copolymer micelles, E Beyou, E Ehret, Mamontov, GV ; Bugrova, TA, Domenichini, B ; Aires Cadete Santos F, Nanoscale, 7, 13239 (2015) ; DOI : 10.1039/c5nr02215k
  • Acyloxyimide Derivatives as Peroxide Alternatives for the Grafting of Maleic Anhydride onto Polyethylene by reactive extrusion, M D Rakotonirina, M Baron, D Siri, A Gaudel-Siri, S Quinebeche, JJ Flat, D Gigmes, P Cassagnau, Y Guillaneuf, E Beyou, Polym Chem., 10, 4336-4345, (2019) ; DOI : 10.1039/c9py00672a
  • Comparative studies on the adsorption of metal ions from aqueous solutions using various functionalized graphene oxide sheets as supported adsorbents, L.Chaabane, E Beyou, El Ghali, Amel, H Baouab, J. Hazardous Mat.,389 , Article Number: 121839, (2020) ; DOI : 10.1016/j.jhazmat.2019.121839
  • Organic–inorganic hybrid functional materials by nitroxide-mediated polymerization, E Beyou, E Bourgeat-Lami, Prog Polym Sci 121, 101434, (2021) ; DOI : 10.1016/j.progpolymsci.2021.101434

Brief CV

1990 D.E.A. Organic Chemistry, University of Brest
1994 PhD in Organic Chemistry, “Synthesis and properties of new fluorinated polysiloxanes”, Laboratory of organic and organometallic chemistry URA35, Université Bordeaux
1995-1997 Post-doctoral researcher, “Synthesis of saturable absorbers based on naphthalocycanines”, Charles Sadron Institute, Strasbourg
1998 Assistant Professor, IMP, University Lyon1
2014 Professor, IMP, Lyon1 University